Be Familiar With New Meds for Myasthenia Gravis

There’s buzz about new injectable targeted therapies for myasthenia gravis.

This chronic, autoimmune disease can cause bouts of muscle weakness almost anywhere in the body...from drooping eyelids to difficulty swallowing, speaking, and moving.

These patients’ immune systems make antibodies...mostly to acetylcholine receptors...which attack proteins in the muscle neural pathways making it hard to contract muscles.